I participated in January’s Global Game Jam! This was my first game jam as an official participant and it was an amazing experience. Besides me (programmer/designer), my team had an artist, an audio person, a designer, and another programmer. I knew half the other members of the team, so it was a nice mix of familiarity and new faces.

I jammed at a site that was organized by the local game development community  here in Oregon (which is where I work now, as a game designer). You can check out the game we made, Third Time’s the Charm, on the GGJ 2019 project site. We intended it to be mobile/web, but with the time crunch the windows build was the only one we got working in time. Such is the nature of the jam!

Several of our team members expressed interest in expanding what we created into the grand design we desired. I would love to continue working on it (even if it’s just to get a mobile build working) in the future.

At the end of the jam, everyone who participated on the site showed off their games. It was super cool to see how each team interpreted the theme (What Home Means to You). I was particularly interested in the projects that used AirConsole. Really got the idea machine churning. Looking forward to sitting down and playing games from other jam sites!